Example sentences of "vote to [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The $2,700 million emergency measure was passed by 404 votes to eight in the House and by 94 votes to two in the Senate . |
| 2 | The core of the meeting 's decision was the adoption by 18 votes to six of a resolution which would allow commercial hunting to be resumed when stocks had reached 54 per cent of their estimated population prior to large-scale exploitation . |
| 3 | The $2,700 million emergency measure was passed by 404 votes to eight in the House and by 94 votes to two in the Senate . |
| 4 | Mr Reynolds 's government lost the motion by 88 votes to 77 after a walkout by coalition partners the Progressive Democrats . |
| 5 | The four-way poll was confirmed when Mr Reynolds 's motion of confidence in his government was defeated by 88 votes to 77 in the Dublin parliament following a day-long debate . |
| 6 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |
| 7 | The resulting bill , which was approved by 211 votes to 189 in the House and by 50 votes to 44 in the Senate , would have increased the top rate of income tax from 31 to 36 per cent and would have placed a 10 per cent surtax on millionaires to finance tax relief — particularly in the form of a permanent tax credit of $300 per child — for lower- and middle-income tax payers . |
| 8 | It cleared him by 10 votes to three of a charge that he had received bribes from Koskotas , and by nine votes to four of a charge that he had embezzled state funds by asking the Ministry of Finance to write off illegally debts owed by an Athens hotelier , Socrates Kalkanis . |
| 9 | The resulting bill , which was approved by 211 votes to 189 in the House and by 50 votes to 44 in the Senate , would have increased the top rate of income tax from 31 to 36 per cent and would have placed a 10 per cent surtax on millionaires to finance tax relief — particularly in the form of a permanent tax credit of $300 per child — for lower- and middle-income tax payers . |
| 10 | The Legislative Assembly on Dec. 26 approved , by 50 votes to 10 with no abstentions , reforms to 58 articles of the Constitution . |
| 11 | The draft programme was endorsed by the plenum on July 27 by 358 votes to 15 as a basis for further discussion — the final decision on its adoption and on changing the party 's name to be taken at a party congress in November or December 1991 . |
| 12 | Reynolds was elected Prime Minister by 84 votes to 78 in the Dáil on Feb. 11 and immediately announced a new Cabinet , replacing eight of Haughey 's 14 ministers . |
| 13 | It cleared him by 10 votes to three of a charge that he had received bribes from Koskotas , and by nine votes to four of a charge that he had embezzled state funds by asking the Ministry of Finance to write off illegally debts owed by an Athens hotelier , Socrates Kalkanis . |
| 14 | With many abstentions , the Commons reluctantly followed his advice , the Government obtaining 215 votes to thirty-four in the division . |